Humanity Quotes
4081 Humanity quotes by 2171 unique authors
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Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits, by helping patients…
— Thomas Pogge
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The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received authority about the…
— Neil MacGregor
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Humanity has nearly suffocated the globe with carbon dioxide, yet nuclear power plants that produce no such emissions are so mired in objections and obstruction…
— Michael Specter
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Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of…
— Maximillian Degenerez
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I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As…
— Paul Watson
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People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how…
— Drew Gilpin Faust
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For too long, humanity has acted with an outrageous lack of responsibility. We wanted everything for ourselves: greed, really. We failed to look at the…
— Shari Arison
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Literature is for the sake of humanity.
— Cynthia Ozick
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When one is giving service for the advancement of humanity, when one is working without money and without price, with no hope of earthly reward,…
— Heber J. Grant
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My trademark at CNN was really asking insightful questions and making sure people are understanding the connections in humanity, and I think that is the…
— Soledad O'Brien
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At Al Jazeera, the first story I did was to sit down with a former Haitian dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, and grill him about crimes against…
— Soledad O'Brien
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The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what…
— David Levithan
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not…
— Basmah bint Saud
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective…
— Basmah bint Saud
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I like showing the gritty truthful dark side of humanity.
— Jake Busey
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The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.
— Jonathan Zittrain
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I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.
— Kurt Busiek
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Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.
— Eskinder Nega
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The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods…
— Bertha von Suttner
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